miscreant

英語

其他形式

• miscreaunt (棄用)

詞源

源自中古英語 myscreaunt、miscreaunt，源自古法語 mescreant (「不信者」)（1080年），mescreire (「不相信」)的現在分詞（現代形式mécroire）。

發音

• (英國，美國) 英語發音：mĭsʹkrē-ənt、國際音標^(幫助): /ˈmɪs.kɹi.ənt/

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形容詞

miscreant (比較級 more miscreant，最高級 most miscreant)

1. 窮凶極惡的
2. (神學) 異端的

名詞

miscreant (複數 miscreants)

1. 壞蛋，惡棍，歹徒，道德淪喪者
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, 「The life and death of King Richard the Second」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]，第 23 頁，第 1–2 列s:

     Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
     Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
     Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
     The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:

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   The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

   老師把那幫壞學生送去校長那了。

   • a. 1719, Joseph Addison, A Riddle of Dean Swift's verfified

     A meagre Catchpole hurries me to fail; No Miscreant, so remorseless, ever tore
     Thy Journals, Fog, or knock'd at Franklin's door

2. (神學) 異教徒

   近義詞：misbeliever

   • Template:RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine
   • 1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, 「Book I, Canto IV」, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41:

     Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt,
     That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train
     Faire knighthood fowly shamed

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   • Template:RQ:De Quincey Love-Charm

     Before thine eyes, thou mild and blessed one, said he, half aloud, are these miscreants daring to hold their market, and trafficking in their hellish drugs

近義詞

• 參見Thesaurus:troublemaker
• 參見Thesaurus:villain

異序詞

• Encratism, minecarts